Hoi Frans, On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 01:29:01PM +0200, Joost van Baal wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 09:01:06PM +0200, Joost van Baal wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 07:46:09PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > On Thursday 16 September 2004 13:30, Joost van Baal wrote: > > > > I've typeset the installer manual in PostScript and PDF, since I like to > > > > read big documents like this one from paper. This required some > > > > hacking. It'd be cool if a note on how to do this (like this bugreport) > > > > was shipped with the sources. Or perhaps you'd like to ship a PDF with > > > > the .deb itself. Anyway, this is what I did: > > > > > > Thank you very much for working on this and providing us with a way to > > > generate a PS/PDF version of the manual using free tools. > > > > Beware: my patch cripples the table in 2.1.1 "Supported Architectures".
This table typesets reasonable if it looks like this: ------------------------------------ <informaltable> <tgroup cols="4"> <thead> <row> <entry>Architecture</entry><entry>Debian Designation</entry> <entry>Subarchitecture</entry><entry>Flavor</entry> </row> </thead> <tbody> <row> <entry morerows="2" valign="middle">Intel x86-based</entry> <entry morerows="2" valign="middle">i386</entry> <entry morerows="2"/> <entry>vanilla</entry> </row><row> <entry/> <entry/> <entry/> <entry>speakup</entry> </row><row> <entry/> <entry/> <entry/> <entry>linux26</entry> </row> <row> <entry morerows="3" valign="middle">Motorola 680x0</entry> <entry morerows="3" valign="middle">m68k</entry> <entry>Atari</entry> <entry>atari</entry> </row><row> <entry/> <entry/> <entry>Amiga</entry> <entry>amiga</entry> </row><row> <entry/> <entry/> <entry>68k Macintosh</entry> <entry>mac</entry> </row><row> <entry/> <entry/> <entry>VME</entry> <entry>bvme6000, mvme147, mvme16x</entry> </row> <row> <entry morerows="2" valign="middle">DEC Alpha</entry> <entry morerows="2" valign="middle">alpha</entry> <entry morerows="2"/> <entry>generic</entry> </row><row> <entry/> <entry/> <entry/> <entry>jensen</entry> </row><row> <entry/> <entry/> <entry/> <entry>nautilus</entry> </row> <row> <entry morerows="1" valign="middle">Sun SPARC</entry> <entry morerows="1" valign="middle">sparc</entry> <entry morerows="1"/> <entry>sun4cdm</entry> </row><row> <entry/> <entry/> <entry/> <entry>sun4u</entry> </row> <row> <entry morerows="3" valign="middle">ARM and StrongARM</entry> <entry morerows="3" valign="middle">arm</entry> <entry morerows="3"/> <entry>netwinder</entry> </row><row> <entry/> <entry/> <entry/> <entry>riscpc</entry> </row><row> <entry/> <entry/> <entry/> <entry>shark</entry> </row><row> <entry/> <entry/> <entry/> <entry>lart</entry> </row> <row> <entry morerows="3" valign="middle">IBM/Motorola PowerPC</entry> <entry morerows="3" valign="middle">powerpc</entry> <entry>CHRP</entry> <entry>chrp</entry> </row><row> <entry/> <entry/> <entry>PowerMac</entry> <entry>powermac, new-powermac</entry> </row><row> <entry/> <entry/> <entry>PReP</entry> <entry>prep</entry> </row><row> <entry/> <entry/> <entry>APUS</entry> <entry>apus</entry> </row> <row> <entry morerows="1" valign="middle">HP PA-RISC</entry> <entry morerows="1" valign="middle">hppa</entry> <entry>PA-RISC 1.1</entry> <entry>32</entry> </row><row> <entry/> <entry/> <entry>PA-RISC 2.0</entry> <entry>64</entry> </row> <row> <entry>Intel ia64-based</entry> <entry>ia64</entry> <entry></entry> <entry></entry> </row> <row> <entry>MIPS (big endian)</entry> <entry>mips</entry> <entry>SGI Indy/I2</entry> <entry>r4k-ip22</entry> </row> <row> <entry morerows="1" valign="middle">MIPS (little endian)</entry> <entry morerows="1" valign="middle">mipsel</entry> <entry morerows="1" valign="middle">DEC Decstation</entry> <entry>r4k-kn04</entry> </row><row> <entry/> <entry/> <entry/> <entry>r3k-kn02</entry> </row> <row> <entry morerows="1" valign="middle">IBM S/390</entry> <entry morerows="1" valign="middle">s390</entry> <entry morerows="1"/> <entry>tape</entry> </row><row> <entry/> <entry/> <entry/> <entry>vmrdr</entry> </row> </tbody></tgroup></informaltable> --------------------------- The table about hardware requirements is fixed in a similar way: each row should have _two_ <entry> thingies. So it should be e.g.: <row arch="not-s390"><entry/><entry>Hun volgorde in het systeem.</entry></row> and <row arch="not-s390"><entry/><entry>Verticale frequentie.</entry></row> . > <snip> > > > I have one question for you. > > > Do you have any idea if it will be possible to use your method for other > > > languages than English? I'm thinking especially of Japanese, and to a > > > lesser degree Russian, Czech and Greek because of the different character > > > sets. > > > > O, I've no experience typesetting non-european documents... > > I've just successfully generated an install.ru.profiled.ps, which looks > pretty good. <snip> > Japanese seems to work fine too, just make sure no utf-8 style japanese > characters are left in the input file, but all are converted to things > like も . I've seen "raw" japanese in commented-out sections, you > have to completely remove these before feeding to jade. But even then, things still fail... :( Lot's of stuff like: Warning: Unknown character 12540, at 100 . It might be possible to get japanese characters using Jade and jadetex. I don't know how though... So: russian is OK, japanese is not OK out of the box on my system. (NB: the japanese HTML output generated by xsltproc is fine.) Groeten, Joost
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